Cameron's Conservatives

Jamie

“David Cameron would leave young people like me on the dole, do you know he opposed the labour guarantee that all people under the age of 25 who are unemployed for a year will receive either a job or training”.

In the 2009 Budget, the Chancellor Alistair Darling guaranteed that from January, everyone under the age of 25, who has been out of work for 12 months, will be offered a job, work experience, or a training place.

This is part of the Government’s plan for recovery – a plan repeatedly opposed by the Conservatives.

By repeatedly opposing the action taken in the pre-Budget report in Autumn 2008 and the Budget in 2009, the Conservatives have set themselves against the targeted investment to help jobless young people.

In fact, the action that we have taken to keep the economy going is providing support for around 150,000 jobs through 2009 - jobs that would be at risk if we had followed David Cameron's agenda

“I mean to be fair though for the last couple of years I have been saying don’t cut VAT, don’t have a fiscal stimulus, we’ve got to focus on the debt, we can’t afford all this spending and all this borrowing.”
David Cameron, speaking on ITV’s “This Morning” on 24 April 2009

“But should we embark on an immediate and large-scale exercise in additional borrowing - adding permanently to our national debt? My answer is that we should not.”
David Cameron, speaking at the St Stephen’s Club in Westminster on 18 November 2008